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The latest FIFA Rankings have reinforced Morocco’s dominance in African football, with the Atlas Lions ending the year as the highest-ranked African nation despite slipping two places globally to 14th.<\/em><\/p>\n While Morocco retained their continental crown, Angola emerged as the standout story of the year, achieving a record-breaking rise of 32 places to secure 85th position globally.<\/p>\n Senegal, Africa’s second-best team, holds firm in 17th place worldwide while Egypt, Algeria and Nigeria secure their…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The latest FIFA Rankings have reinforced Morocco’s dominance in African football, with the Atlas Lions ending the year as the highest-ranked African nation despite slipping two places globally to 14th. While Morocco retained their continental crown, Angola emerged as the standout story of the year, achieving a record-breaking rise of 32 places to secure 85th […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":187112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[18757,258,256,6287,3941,4263,7933,9109,13203,5609,257,11789,10256,10473,254,7319,6537],"class_list":["post-187111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-achieves","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-ends","tag-fifa","tag-historic","tag-morocco","tag-news","tag-rankings","tag-rise","tag-side","tag-south-africa-today","tag-top","tag-year"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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